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Surname
WILLIAMSON
Forename
Thomas
Day
18
Month
06
Year
1901
Age
45
Occupation
Blacksmith
Mine/Quarry Name
South Hetton
Mineral Worked
Coal
Owner
South Hetton Coal Co. Ltd
Location
Haswell
County
Durham
Details of Event
While punching holes in the angle irons at the top of the new apparatus the scaffold on which hew as sitting broke and he fell onto the railway branches a height of 41 feet causing such injuries that he died in Sunderland Infirmary five hours afterwards.